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To: Elsewhere who wrote (11616)	10/10/2003 1:17:04 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793677

Well said: ".. the new caste of professional warriors who have infiltrated multiple branches of government, who classify as “secret” everything they do, and for whom the manipulation of the military budget is of vital interest. This self-interested secrecy is the cancer that allows takeover by insiders of the levers of power and persuasion, and control over $2 trillion/yr. worth of unaccountable mischief. This will sink the U.S. if the light of day doesn't shine on the full detail of what these neocon cockroaches are up to. Among Johnson’s provocative conclusions is that American militarism is putting an end to the age of globalization and bankrupting the United States, even as it creates the conditions for a new century of virulent blowback. The Sorrows of Empire suggests that the former American republic has already crossed its Rubicon—with the Pentagon leading the way. Let's hope not. If this gutting of currency, economy, and language of political discourse continues, we'll have further crumbling of social mores as its proven that in national politics, truth does not matter, only power. A year from now it'll also be obvious the U.S. has destroyed any semblance of international law and replaced the concept of sovereignty with "might makes right".

To: Elsewhere who wrote (11616)	10/10/2003 1:40:03 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793677

A rough translation -- POLITICAL SCIENTIST JOHNSON ON THE USA " A military Moloch" By Olaf Ihlau The American politics scientist Chalmers Johnson describes the USA as a country whose culture is hollowed out and democracy more and more run by weapons and arrogance of power. AP US-command headquarters in camp Doha (Kuweit) : dangerous change in the thinking of the American leaders In the Establishment of the Bush-government, they don't like the internal America niche critic of the American superpower-behavior. Chalmers Johnson, a Californian political scientist, cannot be dismissed as a left spinner or a weakling out of Old Europe. Johnson is even part of the establishment, understood to become once its javelin tip when he served the CIA's adviser and nearly its boss. Yet that is far removed from his present view of the government. Johnson, for 30 years a professor of political sciences at the university of California, warned his country beginning in 2000 against the dangers of the hegemonic politics. "Blowback" is the title of that book with the recourse on an internal CIA study of the unpleasant consequences of misguided foreign country operations. Johnsons core thesis: with many aspects and actions of US-imperial dominance, countries and groups would be made not only to sacrifice, but rather regularly provoked in addition to being rewarded for blows against the USA. This thesis the terrorist attacks of the 11 September horrifyingly confirmed. Now Johnson, 72 reproaches, with the book of "the suicide of the American democracy" its compatriots again brutal a mirror. And what they see therein, hardly can please them. It is exposing, oppressing, alarming and as a reading material of also the political elite of Europe, wants to understand it the driving forces of this new America, that on the interests of other, even older ally believes to take, hardly more consideration.